Picturing you in ruby slippers, Armers. Not doing much for my peace of mind, tbh.
Welcome back.
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Would it help if you knew that L. Frank Baum wrote them as being silver … but the highly technicoloured film meant that silver didn’t show up well against the vivid Yellow Brick Road so they changed them to ruby ??
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I like red shoesies
Just been for a nice long swim
It was lovely in the cool water with nobody else in the pool
Am now atop well two using the fusion powered hair dryer and drinking tea
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Less than you might have expected, but it was kind of you to try.
Loathe the film, not read the book.
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I have been told not to swim in cool water, Twellsy
I am to look for a pool heated to 30deg, apparently
Carinthia.xx
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I know Americans who find the Baum books amazing and wonderful and core parts of their childhood. Fair enough for them.
If I read fantasy-for-children of that era it’s much more likely to be E Nesbit. And even she has excessive levels of whimsy sometimes.
Ah, but Gus, have you met the other films, the ones that didn’t get all iconic? An Australian friend has been digging out and reviewing them; see https://andyoucallyourselfascientist.com/?s=oz .
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…with one thought only in their tiny galliform brains: “Attack!”
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That looks great, Joe
It is grey & raining here, & has been all day…
Carinthia.xx
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Chipolata Sossinges going in the oven
Form an orderly queue…
Carinthia.xx
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[preen preen]
(small halo appears overhead, flickers a few times, then comes on in a sort of lurid pink)
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Dear me.
This, plus Armers’ venture into, shall we say, extravagant footwear makes one wonder whether the dreaded L. iberace bacterium has been unleashed on an unsuspecting Cellar…
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That’'s not a swimming pool, that’s soup
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Indeed, Gus
Good fer me Arthriticky Rheumaticky joints, though
Pauses to get the full effects of the lurid pink halo
Sighs
Carinthia.xx
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I hope that’s not Pampas Grass Joseph !!
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Thatizz a Wonderful W#rk Space, joe. Those Hens will be delighted to have you in their midst.
No such wonderful weather, here. Grey, cool, breezy - typical funeral weather and it ‘went’ well. ‘Amazing Grace’ has more verses than in the hymnal. This was a bit ovva problem, as church members were asked to use the hymnal and others had the order of service to warble by - all verses provided. Pat would have laughed like a drain at our collective discomfort 
We have made That Cake (thanks again, Gus) as Sis will be staying with us forra few days, come Sunday. It’ll freeze. Vegetable sambar is on the go, and I intend to make some mushroom paté, too.
Soo xx
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This has been discussed at length elsethread! It is:
- not visible from the road, and
- somewhere for wayward chickens1 to hide when they object to being shut in for the night2
1Is there any other kind?
2So we know exactly where to look
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Ooo back from dentist one invisible and unfeelable filling done
The dear wee birdies halo matches my pink heffalump bikinki
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Matching excessories - very tasteful, I must say.
Soo xx
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That was an entertaining and educational read, Spadger: thank you.
Have been pondering on why I disliked TWOO so much - and that takes some pondering since I haven’t seen the whole thing at a sitting since childhood - and there are two main reasons. The first is the “and it was all a dream” type resolution. I always felt that was cheating, and also, although I couldn’t have articulated it at the time, the ‘down home on the farm is best, stay with what you know’ morality quite possibly got up my cute little nose even then. Interestingly, I understand that the adventures of Dorothy in the book are not ‘all a dream’.
The second - I found something about Dorothy herself deeply creepy. I now think it was perceiving her variation in real age throughout the film, the fact that a sexually mature female was portraying a general ‘child’ - and hell, there’s something pretty weird about Judy Garland anyway. Again, not something I could either have articulated or even formulated at the time.
And it was alien. Not connecting to any of my mental fairytale furniture then or now. That it doesn’t now probably means that Baum’s stuff is truly original; then, it just struck me as ‘wrong’. Not interesting wrong, just - not interesting.
I have always rather hankered after a psammead
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